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spirotetronates

spirotetronates is the plural of spirotetronate.

Meaning of spirotetronate

Noun

spirotetronate (countable and uncountable, plural spirotetronates)

  1. Any of a family of antibiotic polycyclic compounds characterized by a tetronate unit joined by a single atom to a cyclohexene ring.
    • The cycloaddition reaction proceeded in excellent yield, but afforded a 25:65:10 mixture of three isomeric spirotetronates: 129, its diastereomer, and a regioisomer resulting from addition at the disubstituted 2,4-diene system.1993, Gabor Lukacs, Recent progress in the chemical synthesis of antibiotics and related microbial products

Questions about spirotetronates

What is spirotetronates the plural of?
Spirotetronates is the plural of spirotetronate.

Words near spirotetronates in the dictionary

  1. spirostreptid
  2. spirostreptids
  3. spirotane
  4. spirotanes
  5. spirotetronate
  6. spirotetronates
  7. spirotrich
  8. spirotrichean
  9. spirotricheans
  10. spirotrichous
  11. spirotrichs

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